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walkitoutHere’s the Science piece about the universal vaccine:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1260
Early days yet, but I had feared a cold fusion vibe and it doesn’t look fake to me. We’ll just have to see how it develops over the next decade or so. Exciting possibilities, for sure!
Priestess told me Barnes & Noble is opening new stores. I found this USA Today piece with a list of new store locations (these are ones that are already open as of today), as near as I can tell:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/21/barnes-noble-new-locations-2026/87850873007/
Lakeland Towne Center and South Hill Mall are a 10 mile, 13 minute (when there’s no traffic) straight shot apart from each other, and neither location is particularly hopping. I guess we’ll see!
Other locations are in Issaquah and Bellevue. If you are a PacNW reader and you just so happen to be in the area and pop in, please let me know what you think!
Weirdly, before she even told me about any of this, I was in a B&N (I bought an oat milk mocha no whip, after making sure the mocha had no dairy in it — cafe staff was friendly and competent) so that M. could do her book shopping. It was the middle of the day on a weekday, so it was fairly quiet, most of the people sitting in the cafe area.
https://www.cresa.com/News/Barnes-and-Nobles-Loop-Lease-Symbol-of-the-Comeback-on-State-Street
This article covers a lot of the ground I was expecting: hope that a recognizable name on a street desperately in need of more foot traffic throughout the day will be a good omen, fear that it will not.
B&N is owned by Elliott and supposedly headed to an IPO soon(ish)? They’ve devolved more management to the local stores. I kind of wonder if they are heading to a franchise model or branding on top of more granular local ownership.
I asked P. last night if the font / line spacing was different in trade paperback versions of books than hardcover, but it was difficult enough to convey the question that I’m not sure I got a useful answer. *shrug*
ETA:
I had a visit from M.
R. ran the snow blower around the driveway.
I made blondies.
I continue to delete email. I really let the inbox on gmail get way out of hand over the last two and a half years.
ETAYA: I’ve moved on to deleting some Notes. Whee. So much deleting.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1260
Early days yet, but I had feared a cold fusion vibe and it doesn’t look fake to me. We’ll just have to see how it develops over the next decade or so. Exciting possibilities, for sure!
Priestess told me Barnes & Noble is opening new stores. I found this USA Today piece with a list of new store locations (these are ones that are already open as of today), as near as I can tell:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/21/barnes-noble-new-locations-2026/87850873007/
Lakeland Towne Center and South Hill Mall are a 10 mile, 13 minute (when there’s no traffic) straight shot apart from each other, and neither location is particularly hopping. I guess we’ll see!
Other locations are in Issaquah and Bellevue. If you are a PacNW reader and you just so happen to be in the area and pop in, please let me know what you think!
Weirdly, before she even told me about any of this, I was in a B&N (I bought an oat milk mocha no whip, after making sure the mocha had no dairy in it — cafe staff was friendly and competent) so that M. could do her book shopping. It was the middle of the day on a weekday, so it was fairly quiet, most of the people sitting in the cafe area.
https://www.cresa.com/News/Barnes-and-Nobles-Loop-Lease-Symbol-of-the-Comeback-on-State-Street
This article covers a lot of the ground I was expecting: hope that a recognizable name on a street desperately in need of more foot traffic throughout the day will be a good omen, fear that it will not.
B&N is owned by Elliott and supposedly headed to an IPO soon(ish)? They’ve devolved more management to the local stores. I kind of wonder if they are heading to a franchise model or branding on top of more granular local ownership.
I asked P. last night if the font / line spacing was different in trade paperback versions of books than hardcover, but it was difficult enough to convey the question that I’m not sure I got a useful answer. *shrug*
ETA:
I had a visit from M.
R. ran the snow blower around the driveway.
I made blondies.
I continue to delete email. I really let the inbox on gmail get way out of hand over the last two and a half years.
ETAYA: I’ve moved on to deleting some Notes. Whee. So much deleting.